[Posthuman Wombs]

Anna Fries & Malu Peeters have a longstanding collaboration in the context of the performance collective Henrike Iglesias (DE/CH) and the game theater collective machina eX (DE/CH). The two are passionate about virtual possibilities, immersive experiments, and taking audiences to unfamiliar places while creating safe and tender spaces.

Anna Fries (CH, 1986) is a maker of performing arts based in Amsterdam and Berlin. They studied Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice at the University of Hildesheim and work as an independent director, stage designer and performer. Anna Fries co-founded Berlin-based game theatre collective machina eX, and was in charge as artistic director from 2014 -2018. Their interactive performances and installations toured internationally to a.o. Greece, the USA, and were invited to a.o. Impulse Festival, Donau Festival and Sommerfestival Kampnagel. In 2019 machina eX received the George Tabori Preis from Fonds Darstellende Künste. Furthermore, Anna Fries is co- founder and member of feminist performance collective Henrike Iglesias, which has toured expansively in the German speaking countries. From 2018-2020 Henrike Iglesias received the Doppelpass funding in collaboration with Münchner Kammerspiele and junges theatre basel. Anna Fries also directed shows in German state theaters, such as Staatstheater Braunschweig, Staatstheater Karlsruhe and Schauspielhaus Bochum, the latest work being the world premiere of I LOVE DICK (Chris Kraus) at Staatsschauspiel Dresden. In season 2019/2020 Anna Fries were a participant at the post-graduate program of DAS Theatre at the Amsterdam School of the Arts.

Malu Peeters (NL, 1984) makes (spatial) sound and music for XR installations, performing arts, radio and (experimental) film. She studied Composition and Image & Sound a.o. at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and was PA to composer Louis Andriessen from 2009 – 2014. Since 2012 she regularly collaborates with game theater collective machina eX (DE/CH). She is a fixed member of Berlin and Basel based performance collective Henrike Iglesias whose shows OH MY (2018) and FRESSEN (2019) toured internationally to a.o. imagetanz-Festival Vienna, Heidelberger Stückemarkt, FIBA Buenos Aires, Brut Wien, Münchner Kammerspiele, Sophiensaele Berlin. Besides the performing arts she works as supervising sound editor and sound designer for films and documentaries. Malu Peeters also makes spatial audio design for installations that exhibited a.o. at Eye Film Museum Amsterdam, Humboldt Forum Berlin (both with Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese), Centraal Museum Utrecht (with Louis Andriessen & Madelon Hooykaas) and Fondazione Baruchello Rome (with Erica van Loon). Malu Peeters lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin.